The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.